Walker Brooke

Walker Brooke (25 December 1813-18 February 1869) was a US Senator from Mississippi (D) from 18 February 1852 to 3 March 1853, succeeding Henry S. Foote and Albert G. Brown.

Biography
Walker Brooke was born in Clarke County, Virginia in 1813, and he became a lawyer in Lexington, Mississippi in 1838 before serving in the Mississippi state legislature. In 1852, he was elected to the US Senate to fill Henry S. Foote's vacant seat, and he moved to Vicksburg in 1857 to continue his law practice. From 1861 to 1862, he attended the Provisional Confederate Congress, and he died in 1869.